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A relevant point here that patents expire in ~decade or two, whereas copyright expires when Disney tells you it can expire (which is never). Not that expiring
by dmoy 6y ago
A relevant point here that patents expire in ~decade or two, whereas copyright expires when Disney tells you it can expire (which is never).
Not that expiring in a decade or two would help in the area of tech where stuff moves so fast.
- smnrchrds 6y agoIt helps. Didn't MP3 patents expire recently? MP3 is far from obsolete.
- chabad360 6y agoYour thing of the MP4 patents.
- monocasa 6y agoIt was 2017 that the last MP3 patents expired, which is pretty recent, IMO. It was patented on the encode side about 10 years longer than on the decode side.
- smnrchrds 6y agoYeah, I remember having to use nonfree repos to enable MP3 playback on my Linux machine back in the day. I could not remember when it stopped being the case, but 2017 seems about right.